Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-33111

Ibm Cognos Controller 11.0.0 – 11.0.1.7

Published
08 December 2025
Modified
10 December 2025
Patch / advisory
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CVSS Score v3.1 4.3
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0019 9th percentile
Risk Priority 35 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-33111 is a medium-severity Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions (CWE-379) vulnerability in Ibm Cognos Controller. Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SC-4 (Information in Shared System Resources) and AC-6 (Least Privilege) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A01:2025 Broken Access Control

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

IBM Controller 11.1.0 through 11.1.1 and IBM Cognos Controller 11.0.0 through 11.0.1 FP6 is vulnerable to creation of temporary files without atomic operations which may expose sensitive information to an authenticated user due to race condition attacks.

CWE(s)
CWE-379

Related Threats

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Affected Assets

ibm
cognos controller
11.0.0 — 11.0.1.7
ibm
controller
11.1.0 — 11.1.2

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)
  • SC-4 Information in Shared System Resources
  • AC-6 Least Privilege
  • SC-39 Process Isolation
Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

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Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)
  • 1 hardening rule · 1 OS baseline
Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V15.4.2

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SC-4 Information in Shared System Resources good match
prevent

Directly prevents unintended information exposure through shared resources such as non-atomically created temporary files.

AC-6 Least Privilege partial match
prevent

Limits authenticated user privileges so they cannot exploit the race condition to read another user's temporary files.

SC-39 Process Isolation partial match
prevent

Maintains separate execution domains that reduce the ability of one process to interfere with another's temporary-file operations.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices directly prevent developers from writing code that creates temp files in insecure directories.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

A.8.27 Secure system architecture and engineering principles partial match
prevents

Secure system architecture principles include proper file-system permission models that mitigate insecure temp-file creation.

A.8.28 Secure coding partial match
prevents

Secure coding standards directly require safe temporary-file creation with restrictive permissions.

A.8.3 Information access restriction partial match
mitigates

Information access restriction policies can limit who may read or list files in shared temporary directories.

A.8.9 Configuration management partial match
mitigates

Configuration management can enforce secure default permissions on temporary directories.

References